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World Currency Quiz

There are 78 different names for the currencies used by the different countries of the world. How many can you name?
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Last updated: January 1, 2023
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First submittedJanuary 13, 2011
Times taken197,635
Average score25.6%
Rating4.89
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Europe
Albania
Lek
Andorra
Euro
Austria
Euro
Belarus
Ruble
Belgium
Euro
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Mark
Bulgaria
Lev
Croatia
Euro
Czech Republic
Koruna
Denmark
Krone
Estonia
Euro
Finland
Euro
France
Euro
Germany
Euro
Greece
Euro
Hungary
Forint
Iceland
Krona
Ireland
Euro
Italy
Euro
Kosovo
None
Latvia
Euro
Liechtenstein
None
Lithuania
Euro
Luxembourg
Euro
Malta
Euro
Moldova
Leu
Monaco
Euro
Montenegro
None
Netherlands
Euro
North Macedonia
Denar
Norway
Krone
Poland
Złoty
Portugal
Euro
Romania
Leu
Russia
Ruble
San Marino
Euro
Serbia
Dinar
Slovakia
Euro
Slovenia
Euro
Spain
Euro
Sweden
Krona
Switzerland
Franc
Ukraine
Hryvnia
United Kingdom
Pound
Vatican City
Euro
 
 
North America
Antigua & Barbuda
Dollar
Bahamas
Dollar
Barbados
Dollar
Belize
Dollar
Canada
Dollar
Costa Rica
Colón
Cuba
Peso
Dominica
Dollar
Dominican Republic
Peso
El Salvador
None
Grenada
Dollar
Guatemala
Quetzal
Haiti
Gourde
Honduras
Lempira
Jamaica
Dollar
Mexico
Peso
Nicaragua
Córdoba
Panama
Balboa
St. Kitts & Nevis
Dollar
St. Lucia
Dollar
St. Vincent & the
Grenadines
Dollar
Trinidad & Tobago
Dollar
United States
Dollar
Asia
Afghanistan
Afghani
Armenia
Dram
Azerbaijan
Manat
Bahrain
Dinar
Bangladesh
Taka
Bhutan
Ngultrum
Brunei
Dollar
Cambodia
Riel
China
Yuan
Cyprus
Euro
East Timor
None
Georgia
Lari
India
Rupee
Indonesia
Rupiah
Iran
Rial
Iraq
Dinar
Israel
Shekel
Japan
Yen
Jordan
Dinar
Kazakhstan
Tenge
Kuwait
Dinar
Kyrgyzstan
Som
Laos
Kip
Lebanon
Pound
Malaysia
Ringgit
Maldives
Rufiyaa
Mongolia
Tögrög
Myanmar
Kyat
Nepal
Rupee
North Korea
Won
Oman
Rial
Pakistan
Rupee
Philippines
Peso
Qatar
Riyal
Saudi Arabia
Riyal
Singapore
Dollar
South Korea
Won
Sri Lanka
Rupee
Syria
Pound
Taiwan
Dollar
Tajikistan
Somoni
Thailand
Baht
Turkey
Lira
Turkmenistan
Manat
United Arab Emirates
Dirham
Uzbekistan
Som
Vietnam
Dong
Yemen
Rial
 
 
Oceania
Australia
Dollar
Fiji
Dollar
Kiribati
Dollar
Marshall Islands
None
Micronesia
(Fed. States)
Dollar
Nauru
Dollar
New Zealand
Dollar
Palau
Dollar
Papua New Guinea
Kina
Samoa
Tālā
Solomon Islands
Dollar
Tonga
Paʻanga
Tuvalu
Dollar
Vanuatu
Vatu
South America
Argentina
Peso
Bolivia
Boliviano
Brazil
Real
Chile
Peso
Colombia
Peso
Ecuador
None
Guyana
Dollar
Paraguay
Guaraní
Peru
Sol
Suriname
Dollar
Uruguay
Peso
Venezuela
Bolívar
 
 
Africa
Algeria
Dinar
Angola
Kwanza
Benin
Franc
Botswana
Pula
Burkina Faso
Franc
Burundi
Franc
Cameroon
Franc
Cape Verde
Escudo
Central African Republic
Franc
Chad
Franc
Comoros
Franc
Congo (Dem. Rep.)
Franc
Congo (Rep. of.)
Franc
Djibouti
Franc
Egypt
Pound
Equatorial Guinea
Franc
Eritrea
Nakfa
Eswatini
Lilangeni
Ethiopia
Birr
Gabon
Franc
Gambia
Dalasi
Ghana
Cedi
Guinea
Franc
Guinea-Bissau
Franc
Ivory Coast
Franc
Kenya
Shilling
Lesotho
Loti
Liberia
Dollar
Libya
Dinar
Madagascar
Ariary
Malawi
Kwacha
Mali
Franc
Mauritania
Ouguiya
Mauritius
Rupee
Morocco
Dirham
Mozambique
Metical
Namibia
Dollar
Niger
Franc
Nigeria
Naira
Rwanda
Franc
São Tomé & Principe
Dobra
Senegal
Franc
Seychelles
Rupee
Sierra Leone
Leone
Somalia
Shilling
South Africa
Rand
South Sudan
Pound
Sudan
Pound
Tanzania
Shilling
Togo
Franc
Tunisia
Dinar
Uganda
Shilling
Zambia
Kwacha
Zimbabwe
Dollar
+3
Level 76
Aug 3, 2015
I was in Kosovo this week, and they use the euro.
+2
Level 65
Aug 3, 2015
Wow! The ultimate detour!
+4
Level 82
Dec 18, 2016
I've been to Kosovo a couple times lately. Not the most out of the way place I've been. It was actually nicer than I was expecting. I just wish I had gone via Albania instead of Serbia. Would have been great if I'd never gone to Serbia at all, for that matter.
+2
Level 78
Sep 2, 2015
Doesn't Panama use the US Dollar as well?
+2
Level 48
Oct 1, 2015
I FINALLY got them all. I've got a headache from trying to remember everything, but on the plus side I now know the currency of every country.
+1
Level 65
Oct 1, 2015
Nice! My high record is 40.
+9
Level 73
Oct 7, 2015
As an Arabic speaker, I can tell you for sure that there's certainly no difference between Riyal and Rial. The english translation is misleading; they're written and pronounced the same way in Arabic and Farsi and we usually distinguish by saying Saudi Riyal or Omani Riyal, etc.

I think they should be accepted as the same currency. I was surprised to see Oman and other countries missing in the states, because I didn't imagine that there were spellings other than Riyal.

+1
Level 75
Dec 15, 2021
I'm not an English speaker, but I was coming here to ask about this point. My admittedly untrained ear certainly couldn't hear the difference in reference to these currencies. Just a matter of transliteration, I guess. I wonder if it's the same for the Macedonian Denar - although there, at least, a different language is involved.
+1
Level 30
Oct 21, 2015
50/79
+1
Level 57
Nov 27, 2015
Worth adding places like Hong Kong which uses a different currency (different rate too) as China
+1
Level 61
Nov 28, 2015
I collect coins/currency, so I didn't do too bad, but still, a LOT of these I have never heard of.
+1
Level 29
Nov 28, 2015
Missed 3. Argh!
+1
Level 41
May 8, 2016
Forgot Euros.. Wow.
+1
Level 68
Sep 20, 2016
Oops!
+1
Level 65
May 23, 2016
So I got the Kyrgyz som and missed the dinar...
+3
Level 22
Jun 8, 2016
Can you please put the dollar answers to be more specific? Keep dollar as the type in, but show what type of dollar each country uses. E.g. Australia - Australian Dollar, NZ - New Zealand Dollar, US and countless others - US Dollar
+1
Level 66
Jun 12, 2019
Agreed, as incredible as it may sound I am conviced that there are people leaving this quiz conviced that many countries use the us dollar. (Same thing goes for franc and others)
+2
Level 71
Jul 6, 2019
+1
Level 43
Jul 27, 2016
Liechtenstein use Franc (to Switzerland).
+1
Level 43
Jul 27, 2016
Marshall Islands = Dollar
+1
Level 43
Jul 27, 2016
Ecuador = Dollar / East Timor = Dollar
+2
Level 43
Jul 27, 2016
Zimbabwe = American Dollar / Montenegro and Kosovo = Euro
+1
Level 82
Dec 18, 2016
yes. I've been using Euros in Montenegro and Kosovo recently.
+6
Level 69
Dec 18, 2016
It seems silly to make everyone get all the various spelling of "crown" right. Koruna=kroner=krona=crown
+5
Level 82
Dec 18, 2016
There's also riyal/real/rial/riel.. I often forget one of those... and denar and dinars... rupees and rupiahs.. yen, yuan and won, etc.
+1
Level 82
Dec 19, 2016
It's silly but in English they are used like this ... In my language all etymologically related currencies have one spelling / translation (except dollar/tolar)
+3
Level 82
Jan 8, 2017
And with crowns they are at least different in each language, while I really don't get why rial/riyal, when they're exactly the same in Arabic.
+2
Level 70
Sep 5, 2017
I can see YUAN/WON/YEN being different since they're pronounced quite differently, though I can also see the case for making them give each other. I can also see Brazilian REAL and RIAL being distinct. But there's really no damn reason for RIYAL and RIAL not to give each other. Same word, same language, just different transliteration. Kronor and Kroner seem to be identically pronounced as well.
+3
Level 38
Dec 18, 2016
But isn't china Renminbi
+3
Level 59
Dec 18, 2016
Both accepted
+1
Level 59
Dec 18, 2016
Got a measly 12 and still got 2 points!
+1
Level 57
Jan 16, 2017
78 % !
+6
Level 72
Mar 11, 2017
Didn't know Vietnam had a dong-based economy.
+6
Level 71
Nov 2, 2017
'Elementary my dear Watson'
+1
Level 47
Aug 22, 2023
How many dongs do they need?
+1
Level 83
Mar 28, 2017
Several previous comments to this effect, but El Salvador uses the US dollar.
+2
Level 70
Sep 5, 2017
This might be the Quizmaster quiz with the least forgiving spelling. I at first thought that currencies that were clearly identical in all but spelling to count for each other. For example, I don't expect RIAL to give me Brazil's REAL, but I was very frustrated that I did not get RIYAL, especially since I got stuck on what currency the Saudi's used (since I was sure it was a rial--as it is). Oman and Saudi both use Arabic, both use an identical Arabic word, and each could plausibly be transliterated with the other's form. But this quiz doesn't grant it. I felt similarly about Kroner/Kronor. The quiz is about whether you know currencies, not whether you know transliterations.
+2
Level ∞
May 1, 2018
We have to be somewhat strict on this one because there are so many currencies with similar names. If we were lenient, typing one would get you several.
+3
Level 82
Dec 15, 2021
why's that a bad thing, though? Typing in dollar or shilling or euro gets you a bunch. You don't have to go through and type "US dollar," "Canadan dollar," etc... even though these are completely different currencies... and even though that is basically what you're requiring people to do with riyals, crowns, rupees, denars, and yuan, spelled different ways in different countries or different languages.
+2
Level 60
Nov 2, 2017
Several countries say NONE. Does that mean they got no money ?
+4
Level 82
Nov 2, 2017
It means they don't issue currency. Most of these place use U.S. dollars or Euros.
+2
Level 55
Nov 2, 2017
got hryvnia but forgot pound, wow
+1
Level 66
Mar 20, 2024
got hryvnia and nearly forgot pound, one of the last ones I did (or even thé last one, not sure I got anything after it)
+1
Level 29
Dec 6, 2017
Try the Countries by Currency Quiz here
+1
Level 87
Jan 21, 2018
Maybe Quizmaster hasn't had a chance to check the comments under this quiz for awhile, but the 5 people who commented that El Salvador got rid of the colón and replaced it with the US dollar in 2001, a year after Ecuador did the same thing with the sucre, are right.
+1
Level ∞
Jan 22, 2018
This has been fixed, finally.
+3
Level 44
Mar 30, 2018
Could you include the yellow box feature so that it helps with learning and association?
+2
Level 48
Jun 6, 2018
It seems very unlikely for even 6% of people to know this many currencies.
+1
Level 43
Feb 25, 2019
Out of all things related to geography, official currencies are certainly not the most difficult to study. Studying capitals, second largest cities, and official languages requires much more effort and most JetPunkers have those all mastered like the back of their hands!
+1
Level 88
Jan 2, 2023
if you do the quiz enough you remember more and more every time
+3
Level 27
Jul 5, 2018
I got 65/79. That was a 94.4% percentile. Has anybody beat my score?
+3
Level 67
Sep 23, 2022
Yes, at the time of taking the quiz - 5.6% of people had beaten it
+2
Level 67
Oct 3, 2018
Panama does use the US dollar
+2
Level 87
Mar 24, 2019
I've always wondered -- why are the Marshall Islands listed as having a currency of "None", while the Federated States of Micronesia are listed as "Dollar"? The two countries are in exactly the same position of using the US Dollar as their currency. To be consistent with the rest of the quiz (e.g. El Salvador, East Timor etc.), I would think that Micronesia should also be listed as "None".
+1
Level 71
Dec 15, 2021
Maybe it's official in Marshall Islands and only de facto in Micronesia? I'm not sure about this, but I was also a bit confused by the "nones" on this quiz.
+1
Level 45
Jun 1, 2019
I missed peso and dinar................
+1
Level 87
Sep 12, 2019
It's time to put the "dollar" back in Zimbabwe (they just made their own new dollars the only legal tender in the country).
+1
Level ∞
Sep 12, 2019
Updated! Hopefully they won't have to issue any $100 trillion bills this time.
+1
Level 35
Nov 14, 2019
If you'd like to check out my quiz about US currency, specifically who is featured on each denomination, that would be awesome. You can find it here If you like it, please rate and nominate so more people can experience it! Thank you :)
+1
Level 71
Nov 21, 2019
Even with a background in the banking industry, this is a challenging quiz. It is hard to keep up with the political and currency changes.
+1
Level 87
Dec 23, 2019
Currency alert! In 2020 the nations of West Africa will switch from the CFA franc to the new "eco". Not sure of exact date...
+1
Level 72
Dec 25, 2019
I saw an earlier comment that was never answered. Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau etc. all use the US dollar in exactly the same manner. But on this quiz, the Marshall Islands show "None" as the currency, the others have "Dollar". Shouldn't this be done consistently?
+1
Level 56
Dec 27, 2019
As a Romanian, I'm ashamed that I forgot Botswana's currency
+2
Level 66
Feb 14, 2020
I looked up what it meant. Apparently there is a town in Croatia by that name aswell
+1
Level 87
May 5, 2020
Currency alert! Iran just voted to replace the rial with the toman, with 10,000 rials becoming one toman. Not sure when the change becomes official.
+1
Level ∞
May 6, 2020
Looks like that is scheduled for sometime between later this year and 2020. Please keep me posted!
+2
Level 89
Dec 15, 2021
"Later this year and 2020." Huh? You mean 2021?
+1
Level 21
Mar 6, 2021
i found a bug ecuador has a currency it's Sucre
+1
Level 87
Jan 2, 2023
Not anymore. Sucre is now only used as a sweetener.
+2
Level 60
May 15, 2021
Ruble should be accepted for rouble
+1
Level 48
Jun 15, 2021
I live in canada and I have more costa rican colon than I do american money.
+1
Level 28
Sep 26, 2021
none for liechtenstein is false they use swiss franc
+1
Level 76
Mar 21, 2024
Right, which means they don't issue any currency of their own.
+1
Level 59
Dec 15, 2021
sierre leonean leone, my favorite
+1
Level 88
Jan 2, 2023
the Afghan Afghani
+1
Level 57
Dec 15, 2021
I typed in Rupee as a joke, but it is a real currency😂
+9
Level 82
Dec 15, 2021
Spent more time in Hyrule than out of the house, I take it?
+2
Level 70
Dec 15, 2021
This is now outdated, bitcoin is legally a currency of El Salvador now
+2
Level ∞
Dec 15, 2021
El Salvador does not have a currency of its own. U.S. dollars and Bitcoin are legal tender, however.
+2
Level 61
Dec 16, 2021
Interesting. Bitcoin may not be the currency of El Salvador but the quiz title has "currencies used by the different countries of the world". Doesn't Bitcoin (and USD) count as "currencies used"?

Could end up being a bit of a nightmare to maintain as and when more countries accept crypto though!

+1
Level 70
Jan 6, 2022
Fair enough. It does say "used by" and not "issued by" however
+3
Level 57
Dec 16, 2021
Safe to say roughly 7% of quiz takers are hardcore cheaters
+2
Level 88
Dec 16, 2021
I'm pretty sure the Simpsons wouldn't mislead me, so I think the displayed currency for Australia should be changed to "Dollarydoo" ;)
+2
Level 49
Dec 16, 2021
What does it mean by "none"?
+2
Level 54
Mar 4, 2022
Are any of the currencies "real" i.e. tied to a tangible asset, or are all fiat? Even the brazilian Real is not real.
+1
Level 54
Mar 4, 2022
El salvador does not have "none" as its currency. Official currency is bitcoin.
+1
Level 50
Apr 8, 2022
There seems to be a glitch with the stats. I got 15 correct (slightly embarasing but anyway...). It says that I had the same or better score as 62.6% of test takers, but also that the average score is 19.
+2
Level 77
Jan 3, 2023
Percentile uses median, not the mean
+2
Level 25
Jun 4, 2022
"Crown" should be accepted besides "Krona" as it is basically the same and in english the name is Danish, swedish etc. crowns
+2
Level 61
Jul 26, 2022
Well, having a world coin collection pays off for this one, 79/79, had a hard time remembering the Nakfa, Dalasi and the Gourde (I only have Eritrean Cents, Gambian Bututs and Haitian Centimes) and of course, the correct spelling of Ngultrum.
+4
Level 67
Jan 1, 2023
Krona and krone is the same.
+4
Level 87
Jan 2, 2023
And actually koruna for that matter. They're all crowns.
+3
Level 75
Jan 2, 2023
bye, kuna :(
+1
Level 79
Jan 2, 2023
I think 'hryvna' should be accepted for Ukraine.
+1
Level 64
Jan 17, 2023
Pretty upsetting that I couldn't remember the name of Cambodia's currency. although I travelled there once.

Also overlooked Malaysia and had some blackout at South Africa.

+1
Level 67
Jan 19, 2023
It would be cool if the scoring was based on the number of countries that use a currency, rather than one point per currency. That way when you guess a popular currency you get more points. It makes the game more interesting.
+1
Level 36
Feb 16, 2023
I thought Rial and Riel where the same currency
+2
Level 61
Mar 2, 2023
liar, lari, and lira

dong for vietnam

mark for bosnia & herzegovina

bolivar for venezuela and boliviano for bolivia

not to mention real, rial, riel and riyal

+1
Level 63
Jul 17, 2023
I think Panama mostly uses the US dollar, at least from my experience there
+1
Level 76
Mar 21, 2024
It's kind of a shame that the Samoan currency isn't the Samoleon.